We hope you can join us for the 12th annual conference of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy (MIT GCFP), this year on the timely theme of better measuring government assets and liabilities. Globally, growing government debt burdens and structural imbalances threaten fiscal sustainability. Yet projections based on official statistics reveal only part of the picture. A reevaluation of fiscal sustainability through the lens of financial economics can better inform policymakers and the public about the true magnitude of imbalances and the risks they entail. The conference will bring together leading academic, policymakers and practitioners to discuss these challenges and policy options for mitigating them, and to explore the implications for interest rates, financial markets, and the macroeconomy.

The conference, co-sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, will be held in-person in at the Boston Marriott Cambridge in the heart of Kendall Square and will also be livestreamed. Attendance is free, but registration is required to join in person and space is limited.